AIA Director, Barbara Gardner discusses Religion and Animals on BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief programme with Shaunaka Rishi Das, a Vaisnav priest from the Oxford Centre of Hindu Studies and Shimon Cohen, Director of Shechita UK, an organisation which defends the Jewish method of slaughtering animals for food – 4th March 2013. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r0dyv

Barbara Gardner talks to Sandra Kyle and Lynley Tulloch of Safe & Sound Radio about the faith’s teachings on the compassionate treatment of animals. Subjects include ‘do animals have souls?’, ‘do animals have rights?’, veganism and new insights from Pope Francis’ new encyclical letter, Laudato Si’. Listen to the podcast here: